Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That scenario isn't so very farfetched. First, there is the chance that in exchange for a shorter sentence, Tucker or one of the McDougals might cooperate with Starr and provide evidence that would directly implicate Clinton. But even without that development, Whitewater has half a dozen other tentacles that could ensnare the President or First Lady. Among them...
...proposed phase-out of the $20,000 Faculty subsidy put nearly a dozen PBHA programs in jeopardy...
...faxing Dole versions of the speech. Helprin came up with the allusion to Antaeus, the giant in Greek mythology whose strength was replenished when he touched ground. Dole liked that. But there was much he didn't like. They went over the speech word by word at least a dozen times. Editor Dole, Helprin says, had "the compression...
...Helprin, an aloof, inscrutable character who lives on a 200-acre farm in New York's Hudson Valley, and Helprin became the first person in years to give voice to another aloof, inscrutable character. Getting the resignation speech right for the brusque rhythms of the majority leader took a dozen sessions of phone editing. Dole would read a passage, then grump, "Can't say that"; "Don't want to say that." Out went Helprin's flower arrangements, but what was left rang true...
...chorus of heckling rises and subsides. Gorbachev presses on. "Yeltsin's reforms have benefited no more than 10% of the population," he says. "That must stop." A few dozen in the audience now rise, clapping. "On the other hand," he adds quickly, spreading his arms to still the applause, "we must not forget how many ordinary citizens the Communists oppressed. Do you think they will not do the same if you vote for them...